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That was my first thought, the Dlink DES-1008D is supposed to cope with straight or crossover cables. I haven’t tried it with a crossover cable yet I will test it tonight.

Cheers for the reply, I have tried that already and had the same result. Something I didn't mention was that I have swapped out the long 5 meter cable and still nothing however if I plug the DLINK on a short cable into the router it all works ok.

Hi I am after a bit of advice as I have a strange network problem. I recently purchased a DLINK DES-1008D switch to give me some more Ethernet ports, the switch is connected to my router with a CAT5 cable approximately 5 meters long. The lights on the switch all come on but a have connection...

Cheers for the replies guys, after a few attempts clearing the CMOS got me running. Now just need to find out why it happened! Cheers Matt

Hi I have a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3 motherboard and my pc keeps power cycling, the pc never even gets to the bios info displaying on the screen just keeps cycling. I suspect this is the motherboard but any advice on what it could be or how to fix it would be much appreciated. Cheers Matt

Cheers for the link spunkey, I was trying to find one that would pull all of the photo sets of a user

Hi I am trying to find a suitable photo gallery for my website, I am after a gallery which can pull my pictures from Flickr. I don’t mind what language the gallery is written in as long as it’s not PHP. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers Matt

Cheers for the reply brummie, just to clarify what you said, for me to install windows 7 n my xp machine, I would first need a full version of vista or windows 7 installed and then upgrade from that. The reason I ask is before I bought my upgrade copy of win 7 I looked at this tutorial from...

I have an upgrade disc which according to microsoft you can use to do a clean install

It does say that and I choose clean install which it starts ok and then on reboot i get the capital H up the screen and can't do anything else.

HI I am trying to upgrade my copy of windows xp to windows 7. Starts ok by shifting the old windows xp files but when it reboots to perform a clean install all I get is continues capital H scrolling up the screen on the left hand side. Not sure if the problem is with the motherboard I have...

Cheers for that mate I will take a look at the dispute policy on pir. I checked the whois on the domain and lycos are still showing as the registrar. Cheers Matt

Hi Need some advice about domain transfer for a friend. They bought their domain through Lycos, Lycos webhosting have now shut down and despite being sent a transfer request didn’t transfer the domain before closing down. Does anybody know who would be the best people to speak to about...

Hi I need to change my computers language in the regional settings from my vb6app I have got it reading the current language out ok but am having trouble changing it. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Matt

Just to clear things up a bit. In my original question I used the term True HD. Probably a bad choice of words, by this I meant is the game in HD (720, 1080 or any other type of HD) or does the 360 upscale it? Sorry if I stirred up a hornets nest!!

I have an Xbox 360 and have played on ps3 and 360 and prefer the Xbox. Something that does puzzle me is how Microsoft only need a standard DVD to fit their games on whereas Sony need a blu-ray disc for the same game. Does this mean that the Xbox games are not true HD? If you could shed...

Hi I am writing a desktop app in vb.net 2005 and need to read and write to the usb port. Has anybody had any experience of this or know of anywhere I could get some info on it. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Matt

Hi My company are in the market to purchase a 3D cad package and we have narrowed it down to SolidWorks and Autocad Inventor. Any opinions would be much appreciated as I am having trouble deciding. Be good to hear from anybody who has used both. Cheers Matt

Hi Am now installing a Epox EP-9NPAJ Sli motherboard and I noticed that the chipset IC gets warm very quickly (not to hot to touch but quite warm.) Does anybody have this motherboard and if so have you noticed it. Any help/advice would much appreciated. Cheers Matt

Hi Shadow The easiest way to for you to create a control array is add a new textbox onto form2 call it what ever you like, then take a copy of the text box and paste it onto your form2. When you do this you will should be asked by VB if you want to create a control array click yes and just...